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== Operating Systems ==
 
== Operating Systems ==
  
Most modern OSs [[UTF-8 OS support|support UTF-8 by default]].  On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by running <code>locale</code> it should report <code>LANG=en_US.UTF-8</code>.  If you are not in a UTF-8 locale, here is how to enable UTF-8 by default in various OS flavors:
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Most modern OSs [[UTF-8 OS support|support UTF-8 by default]].  On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by running <code>locale charmap</code>; it should report <code>UTF-8</code>.  If you are not in a UTF-8 locale, here is how to enable UTF-8 by default in various OS flavors:
  
 
* [[Debian]]
 
* [[Debian]]
 
* [[Red Hat]]
 
* [[Red Hat]]

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The purpose of this wiki is to help sysadmins and users properly configure their environment to support Unicode and the UTF-8 character set, with an emphasis on MIT computing. This wiki is based on MediaWiki; see the User’s Guide.

Operating Systems

Most modern OSs support UTF-8 by default. On UNIX/Linux, you can check whether you are in a UTF-8 locale by running locale charmap; it should report UTF-8. If you are not in a UTF-8 locale, here is how to enable UTF-8 by default in various OS flavors:

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